West Papua, which is located on the island of New Guinea, is a former Dutch colony that was temporarily designated as part of Indonesia upon the withdrawal of the Dutch administration.

Pro-independence protests in Indonesia's restive Papua and West Papua provinces have resulted in violence for a second week, according to activists and reports from the area, where most Internet ...

Indonesia has shared the mountainous island with neighbor Papua New Guinea since 1969, when just over 1,000 people from the local Melanesian population were handpicked to vote in “Act of Free ...

It is the United Nations, not Indonesia, that annexed West Papua (West New Guinea) in September 1962. Indonesia is only the UN appointed administrator, after all Indonesia promised our governments in ...

Indonesia is divided into 38 provinces across thousands of islands. West Papua is the easternmost territory. It is the western half of New Guinea, the world's second largest island after Greenland ...

That is a unified struggle of the workers and poor masses of Papua, as well as in neighbouring Papua New Guinea, and the working class and rural poor across the Indonesian archipelago and globally ...

Police officers arrest a supporter of independence for West Papua during a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 15, 2017 (AP photo by Tatan Syuflana).

Nearly 10,000 kilometers away from the uprisings remaking the Arab world, activists in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua are taking notes. "We have all been watching the revolutions ...

The Melanesian Spearhead Group has appointed Fiji and Papua New Guinea prime ministers Sitiveni Rabuka and James Marape as special envoys to Indonesia to “address the West Papua issue”, a move ...

Papua and West Papua make up the western half of New Guinea island, with a land area comparable to Sweden and a population of 5.4 million. The east of the island is the nation of Papua New Guinea.

The Tangguh LNG facility sits on the western coast of West Papua, a territory on the island of New Guinea that has been engulfed in conflict for decades between Papuan separatists and the ...